Took H and Paul into the park today. We rode up past the ranger station and dropped in the new entrance. Sweet wee trail across here, then onto the new sidle trail, Locomotion, across to Loess. Paul's first time in a 'park' environment. He was cautious, but enjoyed it. Hugo seemed to be on my tail the whole time, or never far off at least. Loess was a bit sloppy in a few spots, but otherwise fun.
Went in, got passes for us all (old ones were heritage pieces), and hit the lift. Busy. Down around the summit connector, and Nun down, messy it was. Into Capt Torpedo, good blast. Lots of stops to make sure Paul was doing okay, Hugo never far behind. They both enjoyed the long flowy blast of a roll down the valley-bottom. Into the lift again, longer queue than last lift. Again, Summit Connector, then road, and dropped down into the Captain again. Hugo crashed bad on the first little lip, so he decided to go home, so Paul and me continued on bombing down again - same again. Up the lift once again (seeing Josh my mechanic in the queue and at the top), and into SC, road, past Kiwi, up road to top of Vic and in. Down around the jumpies, I went over the seesaw, down through the rocks - which nearly caught me out, through the gums, my usual way - Paul mastering the steep corner, out through skidder, down to road, rolling coaster to 235, good work done in here, flowy, and not too wet except around the oaks, and then up and down home...
Good times. 22 kms, over 1400 ascended (of which 1200 was lift assisted).
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